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Marek Skolil
Czech Consul General (Chicago) "New or Old Europe? The Czech Republic in an Enlarged EU" Monday, 16 April 2007 7:00 p.m. The Pyle Center, 702 Langdon St. Reception to follow Sponsored by: The Center for European Studies The European Union Center of Excellence and the The Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia (CREECA) Consul General Marek Skolil pursued his post-secondary education in France at the University of Paris, receiving degrees in Clinical Psychology (Maitrise from the University of Paris X–Nanterre, 1985) and Sociology of Organizations (D.E.S.S. from the University of Paris IX–Dauphine, 1986). After completing his education, he worked as both a journalist and a lecturer in Paris before returning to Prague to work in the Czech Republic’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Mr. Skolil’s diplomatic assignments took him back to France in 1994 to serve as Deputy Chief of Mission at the Czech embassy in Paris, followed by a brief return to Prague, where he became the Senior Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs. In the decade since he has assumed several other diplomatic appointments, serving as Ambassador of the Czech Republic to Vietnam (Hanoi) and Ambassador of the Czech Republic to Lebanon (Beirut). He also spent two years as director of the Department of External Economic Relations and International Organizations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In December of 2005, Mr. Skolil moved to the United States to become head of the new Consulate General of the Czech Republic in Chicago. The Chicago office is the third and newest Czech consulate in the U.S. and was opened in February 2006. For more information about the consulate, please visit its Web site. |